De-Territorialization and Re-Territorialization of “the social”. A debate

Deterritorialization has been used as an anthropological concept to designate the weakened ties between culture and place: Certain cultural/social processes and relations seem to increasingly transcend their previously given territorial boundaries in flexible capitalist societies. At the same time, policy studies, especially Studies on Governmentality, have emphasized the re-territorialization of the social, in which the former national welfare arrangements (welfare and nation state) as the scale of bio-political integration patterns are more and more substituted by small scaled inclusion areas (e.g. neighbourhoods, districts and communities). Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, de-territorialization processes have therefore always to be understood as combined with processes of a re-territorialization, producing new spatial formations. In this view, spatial arrangements and connections are not given and static structures, but controversial and unstable – nevertheless they are influential.

Religion as Social Reality. A Take on the Emic–Etic Debate in Light of John Searle’s Philosophy of Society

In this article I argue that the shift from a private to a public–social understanding of religion raises new ontological and epistemological questions for the scientific study of religion\s. These questions are deeply related to three central features of the emic– etic debate, namely the problems of intentionality, objectivity, and comparison. Focusing on these interrelated issues, I discuss the potential of John Searle’s philoso- phy of society for the scientific study of religion\s. Considering the role of intentional- ity at the social level, I present Searle’s concept of “social ontology” and discuss its epistemological implications. To clarify Searle’s position regarding the objectivity of the social sciences, I propose a heuristic model contrasting different stances within the scientific study of religion\s. Finally, I explore some problematic aspects of Searle’s views for a comparative study of religion\s, and sketch a solution within his frame- work. I shall argue that a distinction between the epistemological and ontological dimensions of religious affairs would help clarify the issues at stake in the past and future of the emic–etic debate.

Abismos necesarios para la identificación social : (Decisiones ontológicas en lo social: un debate entre Laclau y Zizek)

En este trabajo proponemos un análisis en torno a un debate mantenido entre Laclau y Zizek en relación a los populismos y el sujeto emancipatorio. Para ello, abordaremos los supuestos principales de la ontología social en sus vínculos con la constitución de las identificaciones populares de Laclau, en su cancelación de todo cierre definitivo de lo social y su consecuente fin del apriorismo, con el objeto de comprender el marco filosófico sobre el que se establece el mencionado debate. A nuestro entender, este enfoque y sus diferencias con los embates de Zizek, plantea un horizonte político, cuya consistencia y contingencia en disputa hegemónica presenta categorías apropiadas para abordar la actual situación política en nuestra región

La política social en debate : Desigualdades, intervención estatal e inclusión social en la Argentina democrática

Fil: D'Amico, María Victoria. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

La política social en debate : Desigualdades, intervención estatal e inclusión social en la Argentina democrática

Fil: D'Amico, María Victoria. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Conservação do Bioma Pampa e a contribuição do Desenvolvimento Rural

This study has intended to arouse reflection to construct new ideas that can encouraging the debate on the development of public policies for rural development under the framework of etnoconservation contributes to the conservation of the Pampa. The study was based on an analysis of theoretical frameworks and literature searches. Presents the construction of the concept of rural development from the perspective of etnoconservation. It is inferred small family livestock as a social group qualified for effective conservation initiatives biome because of its regional historicity of miscegenation

Abismos necesarios para la identificación social : (Decisiones ontológicas en lo social: un debate entre Laclau y Zizek)

En este trabajo proponemos un análisis en torno a un debate mantenido entre Laclau y Zizek en relación a los populismos y el sujeto emancipatorio. Para ello, abordaremos los supuestos principales de la ontología social en sus vínculos con la constitución de las identificaciones populares de Laclau, en su cancelación de todo cierre definitivo de lo social y su consecuente fin del apriorismo, con el objeto de comprender el marco filosófico sobre el que se establece el mencionado debate. A nuestro entender, este enfoque y sus diferencias con los embates de Zizek, plantea un horizonte político, cuya consistencia y contingencia en disputa hegemónica presenta categorías apropiadas para abordar la actual situación política en nuestra región

Conservação do Bioma Pampa e a contribuição do Desenvolvimento Rural

This study has intended to arouse reflection to construct new ideas that can encouraging the debate on the development of public policies for rural development under the framework of etnoconservation contributes to the conservation of the Pampa. The study was based on an analysis of theoretical frameworks and literature searches. Presents the construction of the concept of rural development from the perspective of etnoconservation. It is inferred small family livestock as a social group qualified for effective conservation initiatives biome because of its regional historicity of miscegenation

La política social en debate : Desigualdades, intervención estatal e inclusión social en la Argentina democrática

Fil: D'Amico, María Victoria. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.